ok i have a problem (redhat 8) i can sucessfully connect to my adsl to the internet and in the messages in the /var/log/ says it sucessfully connected. also i can view my website ( http://81.128.153.122 ) from a dial up modem. but i cant browse the internet, if i type www.yahoo.com for eg it says cannot find www.yahoo.com as if i where not connected to the internet. i am just a bit confused why this is happening it worked fine for a few days until now i just restarted the adsl connected properly i went to internet browser and now i cant browse the internet, but i am connected as i can view my website from a dial up modem on my laptop if you go to http://81.128.153.122 you sould see a white page with 'THIS IS A TEST PAGE OF MIKES LINUX SERVER ' in text. please can someone advise what is going wrong, thanks allot
myk3

p.s. if i reinstall redhat and reconfigure the adsl it works fine as this problem happend to me befor but i reinstalled redhat 8 and it worked fine. it has happend again and i dont want to have to reinstall redhat every time it happens.
thanks allot myk3

hmm,
..your DNS-Server settings are correct ?
(/etc/resolv.conf)
if you can ping a IP-Adress but not a domainname it mybe a problem with DNS.


J.H.

ok cool, ill try that, to ping an ip it is 'ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' in the bash shell, just to conferm. sorry only started learning linux on friday :O

Yes, ping yahoo.com or ping 66.218.71.198

pls check the dns server ip address of ur ISP (from a windows 2k based mechine just connect internet and from command prompt type ipconfig /all. u will get the dns ip address ,other wise call ur isp and ask for dns ip . then in linux add the dns address in /etc/resolv.conf
syntax

vi/etc/resol.conf

nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

:wq

relpce the xxx with ur original dns ip


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